19th Century British Quotes

#1. I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.

James Bobin

#2. Have you thought about going insane?" It would seem like a reasonable thing to do, given his circumstances.
"Did once. Got boring, so I snapped out of it.

Carrie Vaughn

#3. World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

Neil Sheehan

#4. For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness.

Daisy Goodwin

#5. Your children need to know they are loved and safe. Everything else is adult business.

Jeannine Lee

#6. Great Heaven! How frail thy creature Man is made! How by himself insensibly betrayed! In

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#7. I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

Noel Gallagher

#8. Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.

Christopher Pike

#9. The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.

Stewart Brand

#10. We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

Tom Stoppard

#11. To know your languages of all languages
is to know your silence.
Petra Hermans

Petra Hermans

#12. If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.

Umberto Eco

#13. He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.

Jim Hill

#14. We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].

Orrin Hatch

#15. discovering (or creating) new market space (that is, innovation!) should be the goal and ambition of every company.

Constantinos C. Markides

#16. No pressure, Jack. All we need is a miracle.

Kenneth Eade

#17. There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

Greg Saunier